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'The Rabbi
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Rabbi Yossi Chazan was born in New
York, USA and educated at the celebrated Mesifta TorahVo’Daas. He is
a graduate from Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim (Lubavitch) in Kfar Chabad,
New Haven, Montreal and New York. |
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In 1981 Rabbi Chazan became a Kollel
fellow at the Yeshiva Centre in Melbourne, Australia, from where he
developed a reputation for scholarship and excellence. In 1984 he
was appointed Director of Education at the Jewish Cultural Leisure
Centre where his reputation grew as a vibrant and challenging leader
serving both the immediate North Manchester Jewish community and
regionally in the North of England. |
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In 1991 Rabbi Chazan accepted the
offer of Rabbi of the prestigious Holy Law and South Broughton
Hebrew congregation and his skilled |
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erudition extended his widening fame
within the community, |
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interpreting with lucidity and clarity
difficult and problematic portions of Torah, Talmud and Hallacha. |
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For many years his weekly summer
series of Shabbat afternoon Shiurim have attracted a broad spectrum
of North Manchester Jewry, with men and women attending regularly in
their hundreds. Rabbi Chazan is a tireless worker within his
congregation, which is very proud of his unstinting parochial work
from giving Shiurim to visiting the sick in hospitals, to helping
individuals, couples and the young and old in a friendly and
welcoming manner. |
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He is known locally as "….The Rabbi
who never sleeps…," for if Rabbi Chazan is not working for his own
shul, every other minute of the day is taken-up with learning,
visiting local high schools, delivering Shiurim and offering a whole
host of associations, friendship groups and individuals his support
and energy. All this is completed with time to spare for what has
become an energetic yearly international speaking tour, which can
include three of five continents. |
